IInd Space Rad Meeting Paris february 5th 2003

Agenda• 1- Developements on SPACE RAD '30

• 2- Which FP6 tool to use for SPACE RAD: I3 versus NoE '30

• 3- Organizational issues (assuming I3 is choosen as frame):

• I3----> identify facilities for transnatonal access '60

identify activities within I3 (network, research, trans. access) '60

• Lunch '60

• 4- Subdivide/organize the work '180

Bruxell Meeting Conclusions• Specific suggestion were made (a) not to proceed towards and IP program(b) not to focus on Space Weather (c) to develop an European Wide Consortium offering consulting and

expertise in the field of advanced ionizing radiation detectors, exploiting the vast amount of competence present within the SpaceRad groups and supporting both detector R&D, simulation and supporting ground based application and developements.

examples are OPTICON Consortium (Optical Infrared Coordination Network for Astronomy) and RADNET consortium (Radiotelescopes)

Bruxell Meeting Conclusions (2)

1-  Analyze the OPTICON scheme and establish a proposal for a similar scheme for our Consortium (started).

2-  Strenghthen the national support for this approach (started)3-  Develop more systematic approach with EU Industries and

Enterprises (to be done)4-  Establish and strenghthen contact with EU (to be done)5-  Establish and strenghthen contacts with ESA (starting)6-  Maintain and strenghten contacts with the Space Weather

community (contacts are maintained)

Coordinating body • R. Battiston (Coord), • S. Katsanevas (F), • A. Vacchi (I), • L. Struder (D), • D. Haseganu (Ro),• H. Hoever (N), • J. Lemaire (B), • E. Fernandez (Sp) M. Aguilar (Sp)• Kudela (Sl), • B. Thide’ (Sw) (Space Weather?)• K.Pounds (UK), • K Kecskemety (Hu), • R. Pirjola (Fi), (Space Weather?)• M. Pohl (Ch)

Proposal Acronym

European Space Radiation R&D and Science Laboratories

ESRRDSL = ESR2DSL

Any better idea?

MONITORING ANDPREDICTION OF SOLAR FLARES

MONTECARLO SIMULATION

FLUKA SIMULATION

SPENVIS

FORWARD/BACKWARD TRACING

CPU INTENSIVE CALCULATIONS

EARTH MAGNETIC FIELD ANOMALIES

EARTHQUAKES MONITORING

TIME OF FLIGHT

CALORIMETERS

SILICON TRACKER

TRANSITION RADIATION DETECTOR

RING IMAGING CERENKOV

RADIATION HARD ELECTRONICSRADIATION HARD DAQ

RADIATION HARD MEMORIESSIMUATION TECNIQUES

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SOFTWARE

• Five different schemes are available to fund activities in the Research Infrastructures action. These schemes, implemented with three different types of instruments, are described in the Research Infrastructures Work Programme:

  Integrating Activities: implemented as Integrated Infrastructure Initiatives and as Co-ordination Actions

Transnational Access: implemented as Specific Support Actions Communication Network Development: implemented as

Integrated Infrastructure Initiatives, Co-ordination Actions and Specific Support Actions

     Design Studies: implemented as Specific Support Actions Construction of New Infrastructures: implemented as Specific

Support Actions

• We are interested:

• CALL a.1 - Integrating Activities implemented as

• INTEGRATED INFRASTRUCTURES INITIATIVES

(I3)

• All documents are available on the Research Infrastructures website on the Internet at

http://www.cordis.lu/fp6/infrastructures.htm

• The I3 is one of the instruments through which the scheme Integrating Activities of the Research Infrastructures will be implemented. It aims at supporting the integrated provision of infrastructure related services to the research community at a European level.

• The activities of an I3 must include a networking activity and at least one of the following activities: joint research activities or specific service activities (for example, transnational access to research infrastructures).

• Proposals submitted for evaluation must contain, for each type of activity being proposed:

• (a) the objectives and their intended impact (e.g. in terms of improved co-ordination, increased access, better instrumentation, etc.);

• (b) a multi-annual implementation plan, with the corresponding milestones and deliverables, and including a detailed plan for the first 18 months.

• The objectives, implementation plan and related milestones and deliverables will be expressed in different ways in the context of the different activities:

MONITORING ANDPREDICTION OF SOLAR FLARES

MONTECARLO SIMULATION

FLUKA SIMULATION

SPENVIS

FORWARD/BACKWARD TRACING

CPU INTENSIVE CALCULATIONS

EARTH MAGNETIC FIELD ANOMALIES

EARTHQUAKES MONITORING

TIME OF FLIGHT

CALORIMETERS

SILICON TRACKER

TRANSITION RADIATION DETECTOR

RING IMAGING CERENKOV

RADIATION HARD ELECTRONICSRADIATION HARD DAQ

RADIATION HARD MEMORIESSIMUATION TECNIQUES

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SOFTWARE

networking activities

• The objectives of the networking activities will be expressed in terms of, e.g. a better S/T co-operation among participants, better inter-operability of facilities, improved inter-comparability of results, better connectivity. Moreover, the objectives will include an effective mode of operation for the I3 as a whole, in particular in terms of its overall management.

transnational access

• The objectives for transnational access will be expressed in terms of providing adequate access to a number of infrastructures and of the minimum overall amount of access to be provided. The corresponding implementation plan will contain a distribution of access to be provided by the participating infrastructures (using the same units of access, or at least comparable units).

joint research project

• The objective of a joint research project will be expressed in terms of, e.g. instrumentation development or other technical achievements. Within such objectives, the implementation plan will typically indicate a series of tasks and, where appropriate, a number of options that may be taken on the basis of results and of other unexpected S/T developments. Specific deliverables will take the form of reports, publications, designs, prototypes, etc., as relevant.

• The level of funding for the different activities within an I3, will be in the form of a grant to the budget. In particular:

• i.        Networking activities will be supported to a maximum of 100% of the corresponding budget. They will exclude any form of research activity, which can only be supported through the joint research activities.

• ii.    Transnational access to one or more of the participating infrastructures will be supported to a maximum of 100% of the corresponding budget. The level of community support for an infrastructure is expected to lie within a range of EUR 100,000-750,000 per year. Support for transnational access to a given infrastructure may not exceed 20% of the annual operating costs of that infrastructure.

• iii.     Joint research activities will be supported to a maximum of 50% of the budget of each project, and may be progressively lower the nearer the project is to the market place. Typical funding levels for each research project will lie in the range of EUR 0.5-4.0 million.

Funding scheme  Maximum grant as

percentage of full costs (participants applying the FC or FCF model)

Maximum grant as percentage of additional costs (participants applying the ACF model)

RTD activities (see note 28) 50% 100%

Networking activities (see note 30) 100% 100%

Specific service activities (see note 31)

100% (for CND see work programme)

100% (for CND see work programme)

Consortium management activities (see note 29)

100% (up to a maximum of 7% of the Community

contribution)

100% (up to a maximum of 7% of the Community

contribution)

• Proposals for I3s must be presented by a consortium comprising at least three independent legal entities established in three different Member States of the EU or Associated States, of which at least two must be Member States or Associated candidate countries.

• Class of infrastructure• Choose the one of the following classes most appropriate to the infrastructure related to your proposal: • Analytical Facilities• Astrophysics ????????????• Bio NMR• Biological Sciences• Biomedical Sciences• Communication Network Development• Energy• Environment• Free Electron Lasers• High Magnetic Fields• Hydraulics• Lasers• Manufacturing• Mathematics• Nanotechnologies• Neutrons, Muons• Nuclear Physics• Oceanography• Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities• Structural Engineering• Supercomputers• Synchrotrons• Transport• Other•  

Consortium management activities

• Projects will require particular attention by the consortium to overall management and co-ordination issues. Over and above the technical management of individual work packages, an appropriate management framework linking together all the project components and maintaining communications with the Commission will be needed. Depending on the size and scope of a project, a specially constituted management team with dedicated staff covering a range of skills may need to be set up.

• Consortium management may include:         co-ordination at consortium level of the technical activities of the project;         the overall legal, contractual, ethical, financial and administrative management of the consortium;         preparing, updating and managing the consortium agreement between the participants;         co-ordination at consortium level of knowledge management and other innovation-related activities;         the implementation of competitive calls by the consortium to find new participants;         overseeing the promotion of gender equality in the project;         overseeing science and society issues, related to the research activities conducted within the project;         obtaining audit certificates by each of the participants;         bank guarantees for SMEs (if applicable).

Networking activities (excluding Consortium management activities)

• To help catalyse the mutual co-ordination and the pooling of resources among participants, with the aim of fostering a culture of co-operation between them. They can include:

        Organisation of conferences, meetings;         Performance of studies, analysis;         Exchanges of personnel;         Exchange and dissemination of good practice;         Setting up of common information systems;         Setting up of expert groups;         Definition, organisation and management of joint or

common initiatives.

Specific service activitiesFor Integrating Activities:

•  

• Community support is intended to cover the provision of services (access to an infrastructure) for research teams working in Member States and Associated States other than the state where the operator of the infrastructure is established. Two options are offered to calculate access costs:

        On the basis of the User Fees: this system includes a Unit Cost, specified in Euro per unit of access, to be calculated on the basis of the infrastructure's average annual direct costs of providing access, divided by the total annual quantity of access provided to all normal users of the infrastructure (i.e. both internal and external, but excluding the new users to be supported). A flat-rate of up to 20% may be added to cover all related indirect costs.

        On the basis of the actual Additional Costs of giving access to users.• In both cases, the costs connected with making the access to the infrastructure available to the

research teams may cover also preparatory work and specific training courses for users. Community support will also cover the travel and subsistence costs related to visits by users, where necessary.

• Community support will exclude all contributions to the capital investments of the infrastructure. Support for transnational access to a given infrastructure may not exceed 20% of the annual operating costs of that infrastructure, so as to avoid any undue dependence in the running of the infrastructure itself.

• Part B of the proposal starts with a cover page and includes the following sections:

• -      Overview • -      Fundamental objectives of the I3• -      Networking Activities • - Transnational Access Activities (optional)

(*)• -  Joint Research Activities (optional)(*)

• Networking Activities

• Network 1• Network 2• Network 3

• Number of people and number of Institutes matter.• Complementary to RTD projects (mutually exclusive).• Complementary to Transnational Access (mutually exclusive).

• E.g• Simulation and models of radiation in space• Super conducting detectors (if not RTD)• …………….

• RTD Activities

• JR 1• JR 2• JR 3

• Ongoing activity and past achievements matter Complementary to Network (mutually exclusive).• Complementary to Transnational Access (mutually exclusive).

• E.g• Array/imaging detectors for space• Energy/Time/Direction detectors for space• EM detectors (X-Gamma) for space• Particle detectors for space•

• Transnational Access

• Facility 1• Facility 2• Facility 3……………..

• Service to community matter.• Facilities should be accessible and give a service

• E.g• Silicon lab in Trento, MPI, INFN• Space Qualification Lab (ESA, INFN)• Radiation testing facility• SPENVIS• ……………………………..•

• Deadlines for reception

15 April 2003, at 17h00

(Brussels local time)